Quotes About Mindfulness

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

Let your light shine, never look back and live as if today is your last day...because it just might be.

Ego Check. Damn it. How many would he need in one day?

Grass isn't greener on the other side. Grass is greener when you water it.

When you come before the Lord, it is not necessary that you think upon the Lord. It is only necessary that you continue in your progress.

In all the world there was only one thing I knew about a spiritual pursuit. It was this: become quiet. Still your mind before the Lord. Do that before you do anything else.

During the meeting and the subsequent resolution, we should explicitly disallow the phrases "would have" or "could have," as they are counterfactual statements that result from our human tendency to create possible alternatives to events that have already occurred.

The Second Ideal is Focus, Flow, and Joy.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way -- and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53)

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

If we think our job here on earth is to fix ourselves, we will keep looking for the broken places. If we believe our job is to be kind, we will keep lavishing love on ourselves.

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession will stop when the bolting stops. And at that point, we might answer, as spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram did, when someone asked how she allowed herself to tolerate deep sorrow, "I live among the brokenhearted. They allow it.

Let's not borrow trouble till it's actually here.

I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because what that means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when you're bored, it's that friction between you and time.

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.